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Riemannian Geometry

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  • © 1990

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Authors:
  1. Sylvestre Gallot

    1. Ecole Polytechnique, Unité de Recherche Associée du CNRS D 0169, Centre de Mathématiques, Palaiseau Cedex, France

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  2. Dominique Hulin

    1. Ecole Polytechnique, Unité de Recherche Associée du CNRS D 0169, Centre de Mathématiques, Palaiseau Cedex, France

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  3. Jacques Lafontaine

    1. Départment de Mathématiques, GETODIM - Unité de Recherche Associée du CNRS 1407, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier Cedex 5, France

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Differential Manifolds

    • Sylvestre Gallot, Dominique Hulin, Jacques Lafontaine
    Pages 1-50

  3. Riemannian Metrics

    • Sylvestre Gallot, Dominique Hulin, Jacques Lafontaine
    Pages 51-105

  4. Curvature

    • Sylvestre Gallot, Dominique Hulin, Jacques Lafontaine
    Pages 106-179

  5. Analysis on Manifolds and the Ricci Curvature

    • Sylvestre Gallot, Dominique Hulin, Jacques Lafontaine
    Pages 180-215

  6. Riemannian Submanifolds

    • Sylvestre Gallot, Dominique Hulin, Jacques Lafontaine
    Pages 216-231

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 232-286
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About this book

In this second edition, the main additions are a section devoted to surfaces with constant negative curvature, and an introduction to conformal geometry. Also, we present a -soft-proof of the Paul Levy-Gromov isoperimetric inequal­ ity, kindly communicated by G. Besson. Several people helped us to find bugs in the. first edition. They are not responsible for the persisting ones! Among them, we particularly thank Pierre Arnoux and Stefano Marchiafava. We are also indebted to Marc Troyanov for valuable comments and sugges­ tions. INTRODUCTION This book is an outgrowth of graduate lectures given by two of us in Paris. We assume that the reader has already heard a little about differential manifolds. At some very precise points, we also use the basic vocabulary of representation theory, or some elementary notions about homotopy. Now and then, some remarks and comments use more elaborate theories. Such passages are inserted between *. In most textbooks about Riemannian geometry, the starting point is the local theory of embedded surfaces. Here we begin directly with the so-called "abstract" manifolds. To illustrate our point of view, a series of examples is developed each time a new definition or theorem occurs. Thus, the reader will meet a detailed recurrent study of spheres, tori, real and complex projective spaces, and compact Lie groups equipped with bi-invariant metrics. Notice that all these examples, although very common, are not so easy to realize (except the first) as Riemannian submanifolds of Euclidean spaces.

Reviews

From the reviews of the third edition:

"This new edition maintains the clear written style of the original, including many illustrations … examples and exercises (most with solutions)." (Joseph E. Borzellino, Mathematical Reviews, 2005)

"This book based on graduate course on Riemannian geometry … covers the topics of differential manifolds, Riemannian metrics, connections, geodesics and curvature, with special emphasis on the intrinsic features of the subject. Classical results … are treated in detail. … contains numerous exercises with full solutions and a series of detailed examples which are picked up repeatedly to illustrate each new definition or property introduced. For this third edition, some topics … have been added and worked out in the same spirit." (L'ENSEIGNEMENT MATHEMATIQUE, Vol. 50, (3-4), 2004)

"This book is based on a graduate course on Riemannian geometry and analysis on manifolds that was held in Paris. … Classical results on therelations between curvature and topology are treated in detail. The book is almost self-contained, assuming in general only basic calculus. It contains nontrivial exercises with full solutions at the end. Properties are always illustrated by many detailed examples." (EMS Newsletter, December 2005)

"The guiding line of this by now classic introduction to Riemannian geometry is an in-depth study of each newly introduced concept on the basis of a number of reoccurring well-chosen examples … . The book continues to be an excellent choice for an introduction to the central ideas of Riemannian geometry." (M. Kunzinger, Monatshefte für Mathematik, Vol. 147 (1), 2006)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Ecole Polytechnique, Unité de Recherche Associée du CNRS D 0169, Centre de Mathématiques, Palaiseau Cedex, France

    Sylvestre Gallot, Dominique Hulin

  • Départment de Mathématiques, GETODIM - Unité de Recherche Associée du CNRS 1407, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier Cedex 5, France

    Jacques Lafontaine

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Riemannian Geometry

  • Authors: Sylvestre Gallot, Dominique Hulin, Jacques Lafontaine

  • Series Title: Universitext

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97242-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1990

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-97242-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0172-5939

  • Series E-ISSN: 2191-6675

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 286

  • Topics: Differential Geometry, Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology)

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